johncenafan427 said:I know, i didn't say anything about the shape.BlueStar said:The shape of the cart is not what is stopping you playing 3DS games on your DS. PS3 discs are the same share as PS2 discs, doesn't mean you can play Killzone on your PS2.johncenafan427 said:yeah, the 3ds cards have the stupid knob at the end so it can't be played
on a regular ds
i said the KNOB is preventing me from playing 3DS games on a DS!!!
The knob is part of the new shape and it's not whats stopping you from playing 3DS games on your DS, it's whats stopping you from inserting 3DS games onto your DS. The Thing that stops you from playing 3DS games on a DS is the fact that it's just not compatible with older generations of hardware. The DS is the former generation and the 3DS has all new hardware to run games. I suspect that the main reason they decided to make the 3DS and DS game cartridges look similar is to avoid adding a whole other cartridge port just for backwards compatibility. They needed to save space to make the 3DS as small as possible, the old DS fat/DS lite style of dual ports (gba/ds), wasn't an option, given the amount of hardware already in there.